{"id":154820,"date":"2026-02-21T05:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=154820"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:37:23","slug":"is-akds-fight-against-corruption-a-sham-case-of-cargills-food-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/02\/21\/is-akds-fight-against-corruption-a-sham-case-of-cargills-food-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AKD\u2019s Fight Against Corruption a Sham \u2013 Case of Cargills \u2018Food City\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>JVP Anti-National Activities<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Hon. Dr. Anil Jayantha Fernando<br>Deputy Minister of Finance<br>Sri Lanka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 February 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Deputy Minister,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Is AKD\u2019s Fight Against Corruption a Sham \u2013 Case of Cargills \u2018Food City\u2019<\/u><\/strong><strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Attached<\/u><\/strong> is my above titled letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If President AKD as Finance Minister and you as his Deputy are <strong><u>serious<\/u><\/strong> about combating corruption, all you have to do is get the SEC and CBSL to <strong>follow-up<\/strong> on the UNASSAILABLE EVIDENCE I have provided which has NOT BEEN DENIED by publicly owned Cargills (Ceylon) PLC. At the root of this is a MAJOR FOREIGN EXCHANGE FRAUD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What would a person make of a government which sends a team of investigators to a <strong><u>foreign country<\/u><\/strong> to probe an alleged misappropriation of <strong><u>Rs. 16.6 million<\/u><\/strong> of state funds by a <strong><u>political rival<\/u><\/strong> but <strong><u>refuses<\/u><\/strong> to probe a <strong><u>major<\/u><\/strong> foreign exchange fraud involving a company <strong><u>within<\/u> <\/strong>the country itself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By copy of this e-mail I am for the <strong><u>umpteenth time<\/u><\/strong> giving the company the opportunity to <strong><u>CREDIBLY REFUTE<\/u><\/strong> this FRAUD. Cargills (Ceylon) PLC has to date not even <strong><u>acknowledged receipt<\/u><\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yours Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amrit Muttukumaru<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MA Econ. (Madras); MBM (Asian Inst. of Mgmt.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Public Interest Activist)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JVP Anti-National Activities Hon. Dr. Anil Jayantha FernandoDeputy Minister of FinanceSri Lanka 19 February 2026 Dear Deputy Minister, Is AKD\u2019s Fight Against Corruption a Sham \u2013 Case of Cargills \u2018Food City\u2019? Attached is my above titled letter. If President AKD as Finance Minister and you as his Deputy are serious about combating corruption, all you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-jvp-anti-national-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154821,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154820\/revisions\/154821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}